“I was raised a Catholic and still go to church every week. In fact, it’s the one round the corner on the Rue de Turenne. Write this down,” she says. “I love you, Jesus Christ!” For a moment, I don’t understand what she’s saying. “Jesus!” she says incredulously, pointing upwards. “You know, the boss?” Why do you love him? “I love Christ because he invented bondage,” she says, laughing shamelessly. Is that what you tell your priest? She ignores the question and stands up to make her point. “Think of how he hangs on the cross with his hips swung out.” She imitates his pose. “He’s very sexy, no?” A final cackle, a quick selfie, two kisses and she’s gone.Does anyone take the trouble to understand anything anymore?
June 6, 2018
"It’s nearly time for Dalle to leave. Tell me about your religious faith, I say, nodding at her tattoo."
It's a tattoo of a cross, and the Guardian reporter is pushing the charming actress Béatrice Dalle to get material for this piece that ended up with a provocative title that made me click, "Interview/Betty Blue’s Béatrice Dalle: ‘I love Christ because he invented bondage." So try to understand the attitude and spirit of her answer:
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I hear bullshit. Can you assume I'm a dull student and explain it to me?
There was a retired Air Force pilot that spent 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton. They would torture him by binding his arms so the shoulders came out of the socket.
It was very painful. He said "Jesus Christ it hurt!"
The police were called to his home when the neighbors heard him screaming in agony. They found a man was torturing him with the rope bindings. They were about to arrest him and haul him off, when the Air Force officer told them that he hired the man to perform the torture.
They didn't believe it.
No, he said, he needed the torture, because he was addicted to the pain.
I don't know how it worked out, but I suspect he got more sound-proofing for the room.
They say Jesus has come back, but he came back as an ISIS terrorist, and he was blown up by a GPS bomb dropped from a B-52.
It is said that Jesus keeps coming back to Earth to suffer the torture, as he is addicted to the pain.
You think crucifixion is painful? Try getting blown up by a GPS bomb!
“I love Christ because he invented bondage"
That's what you get from reading too much Pasolini.
Newspapers are dying. They have to interview the batshit crazy, and print it as gospel.
I have no real clue as to what this actress believes. But I do know that The Guardian has no real clue about anything involving Christianity.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds dumb.
I read it as the interviewee taking the piss out of the interviewer.
Marshal Turenne's body was buried in that church - St Denis. He was buried with the Kings of France.
Even the extreme revolutionists of 1793 respected it, while they ignominiously dumped the bodies of the monarchs into a mass grave.
They preserved his remains at the Jardin des Plantes until 22 September 1800, when Napoleon had them removed to the church of the Invalides, where they still rest.
@Etienne:
Went to school with Raymond du Turenne - who was then inline to become Viscomte.
It's not hip to be Christian or worship the Lord anymore. You must worship the progressive SJW cause and the state, and the elite wealthy NY fashion show where a homosexual rainbow flag cape is your new Bible.
+ I think Freeman Hunt is right.
Tell me about your religious faith, I say, nodding at her tattoo.
...
she says, laughing shamelessly. Is that what you tell your priest? She ignores the question
...
A final cackle
the interviewee taking the piss out of the interviewer.
Yes, she had an accurate measure of her judge. There would be no execution today.
The anti-Christian/ worship the State left are always looking for the gotcha. You're either not a good enough Christian or there is something else wrong with you.
Does anyone take the trouble to understand anything anymore?
Yes they do. Celebrities understand that if they do not give juicy, slightly daft quotes to journalists they will be written off as beneath contempt by the press.
Shit like that stops being funny when you are sucking barbed cocks in Hell.
Or reading The Guardian.
“He’s very sexy, no?”
This a common theme of discovery amongst the Catholic girls. It's those abs and that inguinal crease thingie.
Betty Blue was a lame movie notable only for its full frontal pornography.
Pope Frank, we have your first female priest. If this doesn't get the kiddos back in the pews, nothing will.
I assume she's mocking the reporter for her vapid question.
(Does Althouse use vapid?)
How about understanding this;
"She met her second husband, Guénaël Meziani, when filming a movie in the prison where he was serving time for rape; she divorced him in 2014 when he became violent again."
"I read it as the interviewee taking the piss out of the interviewer."
Exactly.
Freeman Hunt is right.
Béatrice Dalle didn't have enough sense to see a dentist.
Charming.
She was trying to be more provocative than thou.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
So yeah, bondage (and everything else) was invented by Jesus.
"I read it as the interviewee taking the piss out of the interviewer." Agreed. The interviewer did not seem have any clue about his subject. I also took it as the interviewee making an outrageous statement to draw attention to herself. What better way to generate publicity than to make a controversial comment about Christ and bondage, no? How pithy.
jvb
I thought Spartacus popularized bondage. Besides, Christ new that he could use a safe word and Daddy would save him.
" Write this down,” she says. “I love you, Jesus Christ!”
For a moment, I don’t understand what she’s saying. you're asking her about her crucifix, AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND JESUS CHRIST?
“Jesus!” she says incredulously, pointing upwards. “You know, the boss?”
Why do you love him? "
Hello? She JUST TOLD YOU WHY (Jesus Christ is King)
i'd be inclined to be flippant with this retard too
I think Freeman and misplacedpants are both right. That, or Darrell is. According to her Wikipedia entry, Dalle has also claimed to have sold human body parts while working in a morgue and to have eaten a cadaver's ear while tripping on acid. I perceive echoes of Rose McGowan's dress at at the 1998 MVA red carpet -- female entertainers can always make up for mediocre talents by being outrageous.
"But I do know that The Guardian has no real clue about anything involving Christianity"
True. Which pretty much makes the whole thing moot.
“I love Christ because he invented bondage,” she says, laughing shamelessly... “Think of how he hangs on the cross with his hips swung out.” She imitates his pose. “He’s very sexy, no?”
The forbidden joke passed down at my Catholic elementary school was the INRA sign atop the cross stood for "I'm nailed right in."
EDH: "The forbidden joke passed down at my Catholic elementary school was the INRA sign atop the cross stood for "I'm nailed right in."
I can understand why the nuns and/or priests forbade it but, Art Linkletter was right, "Kids say the darnedest things."
I had to laugh. It's OK. I'm not Catholic, so I won't spend eternity city in hell, right?
Who among us in the Catholic community hasn't turned to our significant other and cooed "Ohhhhhh, baby, mortify my flesh!".
All the while, of course, leaving the occasion fully open to the procreative act.
Of course.
She has a good Christian Theology. He is the Boss. And amazingly, as the Boss he submitted himself as the sacrificial lamb bound and hung naked where he could suffer all of the punishments ever invented, until all of his Blood had been given. Fortunately, He did that in our place.
She must have moaned through Gibson's The Passion. Just more meaninglessness ala the Met's Catholic Fashion Show.
Bondage? Legend has it the Jesus was nailed to the cross, pierced by a crown of thorns, and pierced by a spear.
She can't even Épater la bourgeoisie correctly.
I had a comment here that seems to have been deleted; rape and humor do not go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Peanut butter and chocolate is more like writing about Christ and bondage, which is obviously not offensive to anyone.
However, I would like to bring up part of the comment that I don’t think would be offensive:
An earlier comment mentions the actress’ (now-divorced) husband having been in prison for rape.
The post is about her comment on her Catholic beliefs, and I was putting this in context:
Perhaps she believed that a man could truly be redeemed?
Could not her willingness to risk a relationship with this man be seen as Christian, if she believed he truly repented?
Or do we automatically say he is beyond hope?
Now, I am using her situation as an example; maybe try to picture her as a nice Arkansas woman rather than a high-strung French actress.
As a slender white Jewish woman I would obviously need the help of Christians to answer this; I don’t know if he also had issues with meat and dairy.
-LWL
Once upon a time about 1983, Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan worked as a writer for Dan Rather at CVS. She worked on his longer format think pieces. She was working on one, and wrote, "This Sunday morning, you may be sitting around reading the New York Times, or having brunch with your friends...."
Another, much more senior writer, told her gently, "Peggy, this Sunday morning, most of America will be in church." Noonan admitted her chagrin as part of a larger point about how the media are out of touch.
Things have changed quite a bit since 1983, of course. But the media are still out of touch.
According to the many French films I've seen, French men look like a pretty rapey bunch. They make it look commonplace. Perhaps French women don't have too much of a choice.
Peggy Noonan worked as a writer for Dan Rather at CVS
Walgreens would have been a better fit.
Gap-toothed was she.
Whoops... that should be INRI.
Wake me up when a European artist does a Piss Mohammed, or a US reporter asks an interviewee if that would be okay.
@EDH,
Whoops... that should be INRI.
Yeah, my brain fuzzed for a minute, too. I wuz thinking "A? But I thought it was Iesus Nazareth Rex Iudaeorum?" But then, work beckoned.
Anyway, as Pilate said "Quod scripsi, scripsi."
I suspect the reporter heard "Jesus Christ!" as a curse instead of a name and a title.
Merde. I guess the Magic Mushroom season has begun in France. I'd better find her cow pasture!
If (contra to Althouse) there's a Hell, how could fools like the interviewer and interviewee keep out of it? They'd be lost in the downward traffic with no idea of where they're headed. They are like a lot of us, even those of us who think -- or pretend to think -- we're smart: It's all beyond our capabilities. If there isn't a redeemer who will save us even if we don't deserve it, then we're sunk.
Excuse me if my comments seem dark. They aren't intended to. But I've just gotten back from a funeral, and the Christian promise is fresh in my mind.
"Does anyone take the trouble to understand anything anymore?" The question that summarizes our era.
As has been joked about on FAMILY GUY and IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADEPHIA and maybe other shows, crucified Jesus was really ripped. Except for the nails and the blood, I can understand why someone might find him sexy. Then you have those Renaissance artists showing him hung (and not just on the cross) and sometimes tumescent. As the old song used to say, it's a very strange world we live in, Master Jack.
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